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Alexander Chee: Reading
Friday, May 3, 2024 8:00pm
Dey House

The Writers' Workshop presents Alexander Chee.

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Shane Book and Sarah Mathews: Reading
Thursday, May 2, 2024 8:00pm
Dey House

The Writers' Workshop presents visiting instructors Shane Book and Sarah Mathews.

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Live from Prairie Lights | Jorrell Watkins & Romeo Oriogun
Wednesday, May 1, 2024 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books

Writers' Workshop alumni Jorrell Watkins and Romeo Oriogun will read from their poetry.

Jorrell Watkins will read from Play/House, published by Northwestern University Press. “The ideas of 'play' and 'house' are interwoven gradually in Jorrell Watkins’ debut collection, with the changing light stretching and bending the shadows of masculinity, familial intimacy, and societal violences. Through his intense play with the vernacular and syntax of blk English, Watkins defamiliarizes urban Southern...

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Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop
Sunday, April 28, 2024 2:30pm to 4:30pm
Stanley Museum of Art

Join us monthly to generate new creative writing inspired by works in the Stanley collection. Each session will be led by a different talented writer from our area, who will be offering a new prompt and a new approach to ekphrastic writing (writing inspired by visual art). Bring your own notebook and pencil or computer and leave with the beginning of a newly written piece. Co-sponsored by Iowa City Poetry. Teen and adult writers in all genres are welcome.

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